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The paper explores a fundamental mechanism of inflation by explicitly including a governmentfs optimization problem … into a general equilibrium model assuming a Leviathan government. The result is clear- cut and beautiful: inflation is … that explains various types of inflation, e.g. hyperinflation, chronic inflation, disinflation and deflation, by this …
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What is the optimum quantity of money in a society? This paper answers this question both from the perspective of a utility maximizing model with real balances in the utility function, and employing an inventory theoretic model which focuses attention on the costs of transacting in different...
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This paper analyzes the effects of anticipated inflation on the resource allocations between production and financial … of each sector depends, among other factors, on the inflation rate. Higher inflation increases the marginal revenues of … costs of inflation. To estimate the change in the production structure and, thus, the costs of inflation we analyze data …
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Should one think of zero nominal interest rates as an undesirable liquidity trap or as the desirable Friedman rule? I use three different frameworks to discuss this issue. First, I restate Cole and Kocherlakota's (1998) analysis of Friedman's rule: short run increases in the money stock -...
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This paper examines the problem of appropriately specifying and estimating the money demand function in the presence of adaptive expectations and partial adjustment mechanisms. The paper demonstrates the difficulty of interpreting distributed lag reduced form representations of the monetary...
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This paper examines a broad set of alternative temporal cross- section specifications of the demand for money as a means of estimating the degree of substitution between demand deposits and other liquid assets. Despite differences in data bases, model specifications and estimation techniques,...
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This is the front matter from the book, William A. Barnett and Apostolos Serletis (eds.), The Theory of Monetary Aggregation, published in 2000 by Elsevier in its Contributions to Economic Anaysis mongraph series. The front matter includes the Table of Contents and the Introduction by Barnett...
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The rapid diffusion of ATM and POS during the last decade may have changed money demand patterns; therefore, standard econometric analysis of money demand that do not account for these developments may suffer from a potentially serious omitted variable problem. This paper analyzes the effect of...
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This entry on monetary aggregation will appear under that title in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. The entry provides an up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art research on monetary aggregation and index number theory, from its...
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This paper assesses the relevance of national information in estimating the demand for euro-area M3 from three perspectives. First, we check whether national money demands can legitimately be aggregated. Second, we compare time-series and panel methods to estimate aggregate long-run...
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